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playwriting competition winner

london horror festival in association with the old red lion theatre

Sunday 15th October, 7pm

The LHF continues to support new writing and provide a platform for emerging talent in the horror theatre scene with their annual playwriting competition. Dozens of entries have been received from across the UK and the winning play will be performed on the opening night in a staged reading directed by ORL Artistic Director, Clive Judd, with an exclusive prize for the winning entry from sponsor Hobgoblin, to celebrate the official launch of the London Horror Festival 2017.

Take your seats for the kitschest horror panel quiz show in town - What's The Bloody Question? Two teams pit their horror wits against each other in a battle of knowledge, skill, creativity and... well, probably play-doh actually.

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Will London Horror Festival curator Katy Danbury beat her dastardly compatriate Chris Nials of The London Horror Society on home turf? Will the mysterious Questionomicon continue to vex our valiant competitors? Will presenter Tony Sands be able to harness the sheer power of the Dice Of Doom? Will The Score Keeper, Damon Rickard have enough fingers to calculate the points?

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All will be decided on the day of reckoning. Or as it's sometimes known to mere mortals... Sunday, 15th October at 9:30pm. JOIN US.

This Edgar Allan Poe classic tale is a re-working of his original poem, with Lady Elizabeth Woodruff wrestling with melancholic thoughts after losing her lover; a love whose death she questions her own involvement with upon discovering that she and her estranged husband were themselves engaged in a passionate affair.

This classic tale is whipped up with mischievous musical mash-ups, outrageous humour and hilarious slapstick comedy. Follow Montana Jones and a love cursed Mummy to Egypt for a frenetic hour of riotous theatre adventure.

As featured on BBC3 and BBC Radio 4, horror-comedy duo The Twins Macabre present ‘Slay’: a dark sketch cabaret. Born and raised in a travelling freak-circus, Maurice and Ivy are the U.K.’s most infamous 10-year-old killers. Dark comedy intertwined with vaudevillian theatrics, ghoulish music and just a touch of gore.

Lovers of scary stories, unite. Adding the fear factor to increasingly popular spoken word nights, storytellers from across the Horrorfest and beyond will share their worst (or should that be best?) nightmares at Blackshaw’s third annual Scare Slam.

Prepare yourself for a night of chilling tales from both sides of the line of veracity.

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Come on down for a scare, or, if you’d like to contribute a story, visit Blackshaw Online for info. Listen to previous Scare Slams here.

Mariana and Ricky have worked together for a year and cupid is slowly weaving his magic. But tonight Mariana has decided to confess something... a dark and unbelievable secret that she hasn't uttered for a very, very, very long time. But there are some paths you simply shouldn't go down...

Triple award-winning sketch comedian (regular writer for Cartoon Network and Disney Channel; creative lead of sketch group Casual Violence) presents two solo shows for the price of one: a revival of his smash hit “James Hamilton Is So Lonely”, and the debut WIP of “James Hamilton Is So Pregnant”.

“One of the most exciting and talented comics on the circuit” – Brighton Argus

Something terrible has transformed Little Spewling into a smoking toxic necropolis. Now, a solitary rider picks their way through the ruined streets, bent on cleaning up this small town once and for all.

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But there is a monstrous evil lurking in the darkness - and it grows stronger...

MISTER MUSHROOM is a sickly, shocking, and suspenseful new play from The Fallen Institute, premiering at the London Horror Festival. It depicts a world of desperation and extremity, desolation and horror - a chilling and twisted parable for a nuclear age.

Making a Murderer meets Rosemary's Baby... Father of Lies tells the chilling true story behind a mysterious, unsolved murder in West Germany, 1973. This is a thrilling horror show about haunted priests, jealous widowers and satanic cults.